We Make Zines2015-03-31T22:32:04Znm boliekhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/nmboliek176http://api.ning.com/files/uErcoZ1KdnIDDGSHGfJWoGyN1*xaYjc1FTtRxQMo5tPe-afT2L9hhqn6V1gSacFZi*H6OLiUNHKFoQH6TRkhLqcWBLvGvY85/defaultmemberphotocopy.jpg?width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://wemakezines.ning.com/group/noobs/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=3rwkt5q0qdjgi&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAnyone want to show a new zinester what's what?tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2013-11-16:2288844:Topic:3755432013-11-16T21:14:32.360Znm boliekhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/nmboliek176
<p>I'm in the process of discovering just how many things a zine can be.</p>
<p>What I came here to ask is this: Would any of you be willing to contribute to a baby zinester's collection? My only access to the big wide world of zines is through library computers. I'd like to see some on actual paper (or cardboard, or plastic, or whatever)!</p>
<p>The thing is, I don't have zines to trade. This would be purely an act of charity on your part.</p>
<p>I guess what I'm really looking for is a series…</p>
<p>I'm in the process of discovering just how many things a zine can be.</p>
<p>What I came here to ask is this: Would any of you be willing to contribute to a baby zinester's collection? My only access to the big wide world of zines is through library computers. I'd like to see some on actual paper (or cardboard, or plastic, or whatever)!</p>
<p>The thing is, I don't have zines to trade. This would be purely an act of charity on your part.</p>
<p>I guess what I'm really looking for is a series of permissions. Zines that show me what's 'allowed', and how wild and crazy or buttoned down and official (and everything in-between) a zine can get.</p>
<p>Any takers?</p> Questions from the new kid...tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2013-07-11:2288844:Topic:3645392013-07-11T17:38:22.208Znm boliekhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/nmboliek176
<p>Hello all!</p>
<p>I'm new to zines and I have a few questions:</p>
<p>-What are the standard zine sizes? I've seen topics on this before but not seemed to explain how to make each standard size. (I know about mini-zines, which are those 8 page ones made from one page of paper folded with one cut...)</p>
<p>-How many of you sell your zines? If you have multiple artists involved, how does that work with the 'profit'? Or do you just trade or give them away?</p>
<p>-Any words of wisdom for a…</p>
<p>Hello all!</p>
<p>I'm new to zines and I have a few questions:</p>
<p>-What are the standard zine sizes? I've seen topics on this before but not seemed to explain how to make each standard size. (I know about mini-zines, which are those 8 page ones made from one page of paper folded with one cut...)</p>
<p>-How many of you sell your zines? If you have multiple artists involved, how does that work with the 'profit'? Or do you just trade or give them away?</p>
<p>-Any words of wisdom for a noob? I have a few basic ideas but I'm not sure how to get started...</p>
<p>Thanks!</p> Should I give up this cover idea?tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2011-03-28:2288844:Topic:1969232011-03-28T18:34:51.402Znm boliekhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/nmboliek176
<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I am in the process of making up a dumpster diving zine, and thought of the following image for the cover, but since the rainbow makes the image, I'd have to get these professionally printed, and then with all that black it would be a waste of toner.</p>
<p>Is the idea alright? Is it worth keeping? Should I come up with something else? Lemme know. Thanks!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Mike…</p>
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<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I am in the process of making up a dumpster diving zine, and thought of the following image for the cover, but since the rainbow makes the image, I'd have to get these professionally printed, and then with all that black it would be a waste of toner.</p>
<p>Is the idea alright? Is it worth keeping? Should I come up with something else? Lemme know. Thanks!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/NdcAzr3d5reFyu6g4OtdAa*K3xqRLkfl2nOymkKNquaFLED7pTvg07eydXBD*wJFtrXqMQWsQGWgT8fGAkIK07x6bfjcwcHt/DarkSideOfTheBuilding.JPG"><img class="align-full" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/NdcAzr3d5reFyu6g4OtdAa*K3xqRLkfl2nOymkKNquaFLED7pTvg07eydXBD*wJFtrXqMQWsQGWgT8fGAkIK07x6bfjcwcHt/DarkSideOfTheBuilding.JPG?width=350" width="350"/></a></p> My first zine!! herbal healing for piercings and tattoostag:wemakezines.ning.com,2010-12-23:2288844:Topic:1659072010-12-23T11:35:45.986Znm boliekhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/nmboliek176
<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">It’s<br />
a thorough body art aftercare zine that includes vegan and non vegan recipes on<br />
how to properly care for and heal your new piercings and tattoos.the zine is 37<br />
pages and includes information such as how the skin heals, herbs to use,<br />
ingredients to avoid in aftercare, recipes on making your own aftercare<br />
products, and organic jewelry.<span> </span></span>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">It’s<br />
a thorough body art aftercare zine that includes vegan and non vegan recipes on<br />
how to properly care for and heal your new piercings and tattoos.the zine is 37<br />
pages and includes information such as how the skin heals, herbs to use,<br />
ingredients to avoid in aftercare, recipes on making your own aftercare<br />
products, and organic jewelry.<span> </span></span> Newbie Questiontag:wemakezines.ning.com,2010-11-15:2288844:Topic:1613962010-11-15T21:04:51.632Znm boliekhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/nmboliek176
<p>Quick question:</p>
<p>I was originally planning on selling my zine primarily around town in local artisans shops. There is absolutly no zine scene here, and as such I thought Id include at the front of the book a small "What is a zine?" explination since nobody here has ever heard of them.&lt;br /&gt;<br></br>But if Im selling in zine communities, to people who already know what a zine is, would this seem odd? If you bought a zine and there was a blurb at the front about what a zine was, would…</p>
<p>Quick question:</p>
<p>I was originally planning on selling my zine primarily around town in local artisans shops. There is absolutly no zine scene here, and as such I thought Id include at the front of the book a small "What is a zine?" explination since nobody here has ever heard of them.&lt;br /&gt;<br/>But if Im selling in zine communities, to people who already know what a zine is, would this seem odd? If you bought a zine and there was a blurb at the front about what a zine was, would you find that dumb? Im asking because I want to sell to both zine people and non zine people, but I dont want two versions.</p> What brought you to making zines?tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2010-04-15:2288844:Topic:1314432010-04-15T00:02:44.902Znm boliekhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/nmboliek176
So, I've made a collaborative zine with a local group and it was super fun! I'd love to make my own zine, I think I've got plenty of stuff to say and I love the creative aspect of zine making. Blogging? ha, that's so 2007. :-)<br></br><br></br>Seriously though, here's a couple questions: <br></br>A)what brought you to making zines? <br></br>B)Did you approach your issue #1 with a sense of "OMG. This won't be any good. WTF am I doing?" and if so, how did you make yourself get over it?? I think that's where I…
So, I've made a collaborative zine with a local group and it was super fun! I'd love to make my own zine, I think I've got plenty of stuff to say and I love the creative aspect of zine making. Blogging? ha, that's so 2007. :-)<br/><br/>Seriously though, here's a couple questions: <br/>A)what brought you to making zines? <br/>B)Did you approach your issue #1 with a sense of "OMG. This won't be any good. WTF am I doing?" and if so, how did you make yourself get over it?? I think that's where I am.<br/>I think that's enough questions from me. <br/> Adventures in Nooblandtag:wemakezines.ning.com,2009-08-04:2288844:Topic:855492009-08-04T05:44:44.969Znm boliekhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/nmboliek176
I thought I saw someone ask in this group to mention what ways they had foibled, but now I can't find it. First foible I can mention. But actual zining foibles... Maybe that's too strong a word, too specific. Adventures are better. So I just changed the title from Noob Foibles to Adventures in Noobland.<br />
I started as part of a local writing group, and we put together a zine called <i>Repeat Offenders</i>. Those of us who showed up for the meeting got to paste up two pages apiece of our work.…
I thought I saw someone ask in this group to mention what ways they had foibled, but now I can't find it. First foible I can mention. But actual zining foibles... Maybe that's too strong a word, too specific. Adventures are better. So I just changed the title from Noob Foibles to Adventures in Noobland.<br />
I started as part of a local writing group, and we put together a zine called <i>Repeat Offenders</i>. Those of us who showed up for the meeting got to paste up two pages apiece of our work. It's a good little zine, if I may say so myself, but I learned later that a zine ought to have a theme. I don't know how hard-and-fast that rule is, but our only theme was that we were all from the same class. I still have some of those zines left.<br />
My first zine, <i>A Character Sandwich,</i> I made for myself was for a college class in writing, editing, and publishing. I decided to use Adobe InDesign because it was the only way I knew to make my work two-sided. My teacher didn't even know that the printer in class wouldn't do two-sided work. So after I'd worked so hard on a program I didn't own and wasn't used to and had to use in class, she had me take my flash drive to Kinko's and have them run off a test copy, and later a copy for her to make copies off of. We had to have a copy for each member of the class and for the teacher, and it was good to get a few extra. I was disappointed with how the pictures came out in these copies of a copy. I decided to do my next run directly at Kinko's.<br />
Kinko's screwed up my order the first time around (I forget now how; it must have been that traumatic). I made them do it over again. They were cheerful about it, but it took a few days for the whole process and I had to do a lot of waiting around. And they trimmed them even though I hadn't asked them to, which cost more. They looked great, though. Cost me over $67 for 35 copies.<br />
I just happened to call the Independent Publishing Resources Center one day to find out about the Portland Zine Symposium. As an afterthought, I asked them about upcoming classes. Found out they had beginners and advanced classes in InDesign. And members could use their InDesign program for free. I was overjoyed. I took the beginning class.<br />
I went to the Zine Symposium last month and had a table for my two zines and my editing business cards. I had a blast, even though only one person actually <i>bought</i> a zine. I had less than a handful left of <i>A Character Sandwich</i> because I traded most of them away. I have a big stack of other people's zines to read.<br />
I'm ready to correct the errors I found in my zine and print some more copies. Problem is, I've lost all my handouts and notes about InDesign! There will be someone who can help me at the IPRC tomorrow when I go in, but I think it's going to be hard! This is a program that takes years for people to master. I hope I find my papers before it's time to load my Word files of my next zine into the InDesign program!<br />
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What have <i>your</i> adventures and misadventures been? Staplingtag:wemakezines.ning.com,2008-09-30:2288844:Topic:121372008-09-30T18:53:26.997Znm boliekhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/nmboliek176
Alright, I'm making some A5 (folded a4) zines and I was wondering how you get it to staple right on the fold, cause if you don't then you're going through each sheet twice and it can be hard to open. Do you have to get one of those expensive really long staplers or what? I think I've seen some staplers which you can fold back and staple with (so the length doesn't matter) but I might be making things up and I don't think all of them do this so either way I'd need to know how to know which ones…
Alright, I'm making some A5 (folded a4) zines and I was wondering how you get it to staple right on the fold, cause if you don't then you're going through each sheet twice and it can be hard to open. Do you have to get one of those expensive really long staplers or what? I think I've seen some staplers which you can fold back and staple with (so the length doesn't matter) but I might be making things up and I don't think all of them do this so either way I'd need to know how to know which ones do this.<br />
<br />
Deep breath.<br />
<br />
Basically, I mean what stapler should I get? I'm going to need to buy one anyway I suppose cause I can't find access to one.<br />
Thanks!<br />
ciaran Zine questionnntag:wemakezines.ning.com,2008-09-20:2288844:Topic:98662008-09-20T16:45:05.771Znm boliekhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/nmboliek176
'Ello everyone! :D<br />
<br />
I actually haven't made a zine yet. :O Well, I'm going to soon. Would anybody happen to have any creative ideas? Or just what is/are your zine(s) about?<br />
I was thinking of doing kind of, like...a combination of all my interests. Like, traditional art, digital art, Web design, other tech stuff, books, movies, TV, music, advice (maybe), writing, and other stuff like that. Of course, I really doubt I could fit all of those into one issue, so I'd probably have some kind of…
'Ello everyone! :D<br />
<br />
I actually haven't made a zine yet. :O Well, I'm going to soon. Would anybody happen to have any creative ideas? Or just what is/are your zine(s) about?<br />
I was thinking of doing kind of, like...a combination of all my interests. Like, traditional art, digital art, Web design, other tech stuff, books, movies, TV, music, advice (maybe), writing, and other stuff like that. Of course, I really doubt I could fit all of those into one issue, so I'd probably have some kind of rotation schedule, or just put stuff in based on how much content and contributions I have.<br />
Do y'all think it'd appeal to a wide audience? I know there's a wideish variety of section I'll have, but I'm not sure if people would buy it just for one section when there would probably be several things they're not interested in.